By Starly Richards,
Media Editor.
On July 23, 2025, the satirical TV series “South Park” began premiering its 27th season on Comedy Central with a biweekly release schedule. Leading up to the drop, it released one teaser trailer for the season in April of 2025, which co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker later revealed had no relevance to the actual contents of the season; in other words, a gag. Traditional South Park shenanigans.
Due to the new deal the show made with Paramount, the 10-episode season has been converted into two 5-episode seasons. The episodes cover all of the recent and controversial topics that have been flooding your world as of recent in an overly sarcastic manner, as they have done consistently for the past 27 years. Episodes feature President Donald Trump replacing Saddam Hussein in a relationship with Satan, puppies getting shot by Krysty Noem, ChatGPT, ICE and many more hot button topics you shouldn’t bring up at work. “‘South Park’ sheds some light on what is not right in the world today and pokes fun at it,” said sophomore Karlene Huard. The last episode aired on Dec. 10, 2025.
The second episode of the new season features the character Eric Cartman as a parody of Charlie Kirk. However, the episode was removed from the Comedy Central rerun rotation following the politician’s assassination, somewhat joining the very short list of pulled episodes, although it is still available on Paramount+.
Compared to some of the other recent seasons, seasons 27 and 28 are much more in line with the older recipe of their episodes. “I feel like this season of ‘South Park’ is unifying people in a way,” Huard said. “The dislike of our government grows as does our fight for what is right.” The relevance to current events and dark humor are much more entertaining than the focus on Tegridy Farms and tiptoeing around controversy that has been happening in the past two seasons.
Overall, the season does a great job living up to standards set by the obscene humor of its preceeding seasons. Definitely worth the watch if you enjoy political satire and ChatGPT.
